Service market

Website development contracts

UK public sector · 216 contracts awarded in the 12 months to 6 October 2026

Covering 600+ buyer portals · 5 years of records · Updated 6 October 2026 · How we count

Contracts awarded
216
Last 12 months
Median contract
£84k
Recorded value
Recorded value
£42.7m
199 of 210 main-service contracts have a published value
Buyers
173
Suppliers
146

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What stands out

  • The five suppliers that won the most website development contracts took 15% of them (33 of 216).
  • Contracts awarded per quarter fell 15% from the first half of the period to the second.
  • The median contract, £84k, is 24% below the median across it & software contracts (£110k).

Who buys website development

By contracts awarded, the 12 months to 6 October 2026.

  1. 1Scottish Government5 contracts
  2. 2Cabinet Office5 contracts
  3. 3Hampshire County Council3 contracts
  4. 4London Borough of Hackney3 contracts
  5. 5Highways England3 contracts
  6. 6Historic England3 contracts
  7. 7UK Research and Innovation (UKRI)3 contracts
  8. 8British Library2 contracts
  9. 9Edinburgh Napier University2 contracts
  10. 10NHS England2 contracts

Top website development contractors by contracts won

The 12 months to 6 October 2026.

  1. 1Zengenti11 contracts
  2. 2Big Blue Door10 contracts
  3. 3Manifesto Digital4 contracts
  4. 4GOSS Interactive Limited4 contracts
  5. 5S80804 contracts
  6. 6Nexer Digital3 contracts
  7. 7Jadu3 contracts
  8. 8dxw3 contracts
  9. 9Ember Technology3 contracts
  10. 10The Union Advertising Agency Ltd3 contracts

Latest and largest awards

Each links to the official notice.

Latest

Largest

Contracts awarded by quarter

54Q4 2025*68Q1 202635Q2 202658Q3 20261Q4 2026*
* part quarter

Where the contracts were awarded

England 184 · Scotland 16 · Wales 13 · Northern Ireland 3

London39West Midlands17South East17South West17East of England16North West14Wales13North East12Yorkshire and The Humber11Scotland10East Midlands6Northern Ireland3UK-wide or not stated41

What is included

Design, build, redesign, migration, hosting and ongoing support of public-facing websites, including online shops and ordering sites, and the content management system or digital experience platform they run on.

  • Website design, build and redesign
  • CMS and DXP licences and implementation (for example Drupal, Umbraco, Kentico, WordPress)
  • Website hosting, support and maintenance retainers
  • Website migration between CMS platforms
  • Online shops and B2B ordering sites

What is not included

  • Staff intranets -> it.ent.intranet-knowledge-search
  • Transactional digital services built through discovery, alpha and beta -> it.dev.digital-service-delivery
  • Native or cross-platform mobile apps -> it.dev.mobile-app-development
  • On-site museum interactives, XR and virtual tours -> it.dev.interactive-and-immersive-experiences
  • Accessibility audits -> it.dev.accessibility-testing-and-audit
  • Web analytics -> it.data.web-analytics
  • Managed hosting of a non-website application -> it.infra.managed-hosting

Often bought by the same buyers